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New Draft Of CISPA Announced: Some Progress, Still Big Problems
- tptacek 15y agoNeat! This bill incorporates ACLU's feedback almost entirely, and contains no mention of intellectual property. It'll be interesting to see how Cory Doctorow manages to make hay of it this time. One wonders how this revision squares with the strident HN belief that CISPA is "SOPA round 2", intended as a tool for the MPAA. Maybe the government had to back down after the firestorm of CISPA feedback! :) Unfortunately, this draft of CISPA doesn't address my issue with it, which is that CISPA doesn't actually do anything. Service providers have the same ability to react to cyberthreats after CISPA as they did, under the ECPA, before CISPA.
- rickmb 15y agoIt still covers virtually unrestricted privacy violations. For anyone who considers privacy a civil right, this bill is still insane. The whole notion of encouraging companies to violate people's privacy and sharing information with the government without any form of due process belongs in a totalitarian regime. The fact that this shit already happens (and puts the US in direct conflict with other Western countries because US companies operating internationally have lots of personal information of their citizens) doesn't justify CISPA.
- tptacek 15y agoAgain: that form of information sharing isn't just already lawful under the 1986 ECPA, it's explicitly written into the 1986 ECPA. If anything, CISPA --- particularly the second draft of CISPA, but even the "horrible" first one --- is more restrictive: it narrows the circumstances of sharing to "cyber threat" scenarios, limits who the information can be shared with (ECPA does not), and suggests anonymization.